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23 unusual facts about Charleville


2012 French Figure Skating Championships

The Junior Championships took place from 24–26 February 2012 in Charleville-Mézières.

A Season in Hell

Rimbaud began writing the poem in April 1873 during a visit to his family's farm in Roche, near Charleville on the French-Belgian border.

Antoine Louis Dugès

Antoine Louis Dugès (December 19, 1797 – May 1, 1838) was a French obstetrician and naturalist born in Charleville-Mézières, Ardennes.

Astou Traoré

Astou Traoré (born 30 April 1981) is a Senegalese women's basketball power forward with Charleville-Mézières in France.

Avro 547

Despite this, Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services (QANTAS) bought the first prototype in November 1920 for GBP 2,798 with the intention of using it on a route between Charleville and Katherine.

Basil Twist

He graduated from the École Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette in Charleville-Mézières, France.

Butler Air Transport

After getting a pilot's license, he became a barnstormer before in 1934 winning the contract for the Charleville, Queensland to Cootamundra, New South Wales leg of the England-Australia airmail route.

Charleville musket

While it is more correctly called a French infantry musket or a French pattern musket, these muskets later became known as "Charleville muskets", after the armory in Charleville-Mézières, Ardennes, France.

Charleville-Mézières

The Gare de Charleville-Mézières railway station offers connections to Paris (by TGV), Reims, Lille, Metz and regional destinations.

Charleville, County Cork

Charleville is also home to stores and restaurants such as Lidl, Supervalu, Subway, Supermacs, Papa Johns Elverys Sports and Aldi.

Claude de Berlaymont

His father died in 1578, and in 1579, his oldest brother, Gilles, killed at the Siege of Maastricht; Claude succeeded his brother as governor of Charleville.

Claude Herbulot

He was born in Charleville-Mézières in 1908 in the Ardennes and his earliest works were on the lepidopteran fauna of the district.

Constantine Ó Nialláin

This latter affliction made Francis Lavalin Nugent refuse, at considerable controversy, to send him as a missionary to Charleville {in northern France} in 1621, because his lack of teeth made his speech virtually unintelligible.

Franz von Sickingen

For this service he was made imperial chamberlain and councillor, and in 1521 he led an expedition into France, which ravaged Picardy, but was beaten back from Mézières and forced to retreat.

Frédéric Rimbaud

In October 1852, Rimbaud, then 38, was transferred to Mézières when he met his future wife then 27, Marie Catherine Vitalie Cuif (10 March 1825-16 November 1907), while on a Sunday stroll.

Gustave Doret

He was also the founder of the Théâtre du Jorat, in Mézières.

Hospital Hill fire

An article published in The Western Star suggests there a was a bit of controversy, when over 250 people from Charleville wanted to purchase excursion tickets to Roma.

Jean Follain

In 1951 he gave up his career as a business lawyer and was appointed to the post of judge (magistrate) of the High Court in Charleville.

John Anster

John Martin Anster (1793–1867) was born in Charleville, Co. Cork, and educated at Trinity College Dublin from 1814.

Keith Hanley

Keith Hanley (born August 15, 1993) is an Irish singer from Charleville, County Cork and the winner of The Voice of Ireland series 2 on April 28, 2013.

Le Bateau ivre

Rimbaud, then aged 16, wrote the poem in the summer of 1871 at his childhood home in Charleville in Northern France.

Michel Fourniret

She disappeared in 1989 from the railway station of Charleville-Mézières, and her body was recovered from the estate of Fourniret with his assistance.

Trevor Coomber

He was born in Charleville to schoolteacher Laurence Edward Coomber and Sybil Harding, née Lightbody, a secretary.


Ballyvourney

Neither would it be part of the Golden Vale unlike the rich pasture towns to the north of the Boggeragh mountains (e.g. Charleville).

Charles Bury, 2nd Earl of Charleville

Lord Charleville married Harriet Charlotte Beaujolais Campbell, daughter of John Campbell of Shawfield and Islay and sister of Walter Frederick Campbell, in Florence in 1821.

Denzil Meuli

He also held chaplaincies in several parishes in France (including Neuilly-sur-Seine, Charleville-Mezieres, Armentieres and at the Walburgeschule in Menden, Germany) while collecting material for his doctorate.

Dublin City Public Libraries and Archive

The philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) funded the building of four Carnegie Libraries in the Dublin City Public Libraries branch network, Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street; Rathmines Library (terracotta by the famous Gibbs and Canning of Tamworth, Staffordshire); Pembroke Library and Charleville Mall Library.

Edward Barry

Sir Edward Barry, 1st Baronet (1696–1776), Irish physician and MP for Charleville

Francis Lavalin Nugent

Meanwhile, in 1618 the monastery of Charleville, in the Ardennes, became a training-school for friars intended for the Irish mission, and facilities for the same purpose were offered by the Flandro-Belgian Province.

Great Western Railway, Queensland

The idea of linking the western extremities of the QR lines was fulfilled when the Australian government contracted Qantas to provide air mail services linking Charleville, Blackall, Longreach, Winton and Cloncurry in 1922.

Henriette Herz

She was the daughter of a physician, descended from a Portuguese Jewish family of Hamburg, Benjamin de Lemos (1711–1789) and Esther (1742–1817), née Charleville.

Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette

For his early education he proceeded first to the college of Charleville, and afterwards to that of Reims.

Matthew Deane

Sir Matthew Deane, 3rd Baronet (c. 1680–1747), Irish MP for Charleville and Cork County

Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill

In 1754, Seán Clárach died and was laid to rest in Holy Cross Cemetery, Charleville.

The Westlander

The Westlander is an Australian passenger train operated by Queensland Rail on the Main and Western lines between Brisbane and the outback town of Charleville.